Job 15:11
Good News Translation
God offers you comfort; why still reject it? We have spoken for him with calm, even words.

New Revised Standard Version
Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?

Contemporary English Version
And you have been offered comforting words from God. Isn't this enough?

New American Bible
Are the consolations of God not enough for you, and speech that deals gently with you?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

the consolations

Job 5:8-26 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God: . . .

Job 11:13-19 But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort: . . .

2 Corinthians 7:6 But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus.

is there

Job 15:8 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?

Job 13:2 According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.

1 Kings 22:24 And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck Micheas on the cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken to thee?

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
10There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers. 11Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.12Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?…
Cross References
Job 5:17
Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

Job 6:10
And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.

Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Job 36:15
He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.

Job 36:16
Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.

Job 15:10
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